
Samsung Series 5 Wi-Fi Chromebook
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The Samsung Chromebook is very light weight and portable; and I like its clean looks and solid finish. The keyboard is amazing and the trackpad is HUGE. It also feels a lot faster than the CR-48. The software on the CR-48 kept improving and getting better in the 6 months I had it and it feels like its gotten even better on the Samsung Series 5. There's now a file manager and a media player and it is super easy to upload photos to Picasa. And ofcourse it has Chrome which is fast.
Both machines have very bright and crisp displays in a wide format. The screen itself is of the traditional non-glare type.
Chrome OS is a slimmed down (very) version of Linux that boots in 8 seconds and awakes from sleep almost instantly. so the graphical interface is the Chrome web browser which takes up the whole screen as soon as you log-on to the machine.
In addition to the SSD space you can store local files on a USB stick or memory card.
With Chrome OS being a young product so far there is still room for improvement, but the improvements are coming fairly regularly and they are totally non-disruptive, downloading in the background and automatically activating the next time you boot. Even that first boot after update doesn't seem to take longer as with some OSs.
Finally,Samsung Series 5 Wi-Fi Chromebook on communications,WiFi set-up is as easy or easier than Windows or Apple machines I've used.